Identity Formation in the New Testament
edited by Bengt Holmberg and Mikael Winninge
This conference volume focuses on showing that investigating various aspects of the Christian movement’s identity helps us to understand its historical reality. Whatever is known about identity from ancient times reaches us mostly through ancient texts. Thus many of the essays in this volume are devoted to analyzing New Testament texts and showing how they reveal the processes of identity formation. One type of evidence here is how New Testament texts compare with or treat older texts which are in the same normative tradition, in other words biblical and Jewish texts. Another group of essays deals with specific literary techniques used in the service of creating identity, such as personification, stereotyping or marginalizing others as well as looking at the relationship between different kinds of social identity. A third group of essays directs attention to the light that gender analysis casts on the shaping of Christian identity, pointing both to surprising similarities and differences from the surrounding culture. The final group of essays applies the insights of postcolonial theory and its sensitivity to power relationships and the political dimension of human reality.
The Role of Biblical Traditions in Identity Formation Samuel Byrskog: Christology and Identity in Intertextual Perspective. The Glory of Adam in the Narrative Substructure of Paul's Letter to the Romans - Per Jarle Bekken: The Controversy on Self-Witness according to John 5:31-40
8:12-20 and Philo, Legum Allegoriae 3.205-208 - Tobias Hagerland: Rituals of (Ex-)Communication and Identity: 1 Cor 5 and 4Q266 11
4Q270 7 Identity Construction in texts Judith Lieu: Literary Strategies of Personification - Lauri Thuren: The Antagonists. Rhetorically Marginalized Identities in the New Testament - Thomas Kazen: Son of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation - Raimo Hakola: Social Identity and a Stereotype in the Making. Pharisees as Hypocrites in Matthew 23 - Rikard Roitto: Act as a Christ-believer, as a Household Member or Both? A Cognitive Perspective on the Relation Between the Social Identity in Christ and Household Identities in Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Texts Gender-analytical Perspectives Halvor Moxnes: Body, Gender, and Social Space. Dilemmas in Constructing Early Christian Identities - Fredrik Ivarsson: A Man Has To Do What A Man Has To Do. Protocols of Masculine Sexual Behaviour and 1 Corinthians 5-7 - Hanna Stenstrom: Masculine or Feminine? Male Virgins in Joseph and Aseneth and The Book of Revelation Postcolonial Analyses Hans Leander: The Parousia as Medicine. A Postcolonial Perspective on Mark and Christian Identity Construction - Christina Petterson: Mission of Christ and Local Communities in Acts - Anna Rebecca Solevag: Perpetua and Felicitas. Reinterpreting Empire, Family and Sexuality
Bengt Holmberg, is professor emeritus at Lund University, Sweden.Mikael Winninge, is senior lecturer at Umea University, Sweden.
- Edited by Bengt Holmberg
- Edited by Mikael Winninge
Other Titles in this Series
Future Hope and Present Reality
Volume I: Eschatology and Transformation in the Hebrew Bible
Volume 293
Common Ground and Diversity in Early Christian Thought and Study
Essays in Memory of Heikki Raisanen
Volume 495
Väterfiguren im lukanischen Gedächtnisgemälde
Die identitätsstiftende Funktion von Abraham, Mose und David in der intentionalen Geschichtsschreibung des Lukas
Von Ben Sira zu Paulus
Gesammelte Aufsätze zu Texten, Theologie und Hermeneutik des Frühjudentums und des Neuen Testaments
Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus
A Collaborative Exploration of Context and Coherence
Volume 247
Eschatologie – Eschatology
The Sixth Durham-Tubingen Research Symposium: Eschatology in Old Testament, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Tubingen, September, 2009)
Volume 272
The Eucharist – Its Origins and Contexts
Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Volume I-III
Volume 376
Creation Concepts and Creation Care
Perspectives from Early Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics XVII
Heil und Geschichte
Die Geschichtsbezogenheit des Heils und das Problem der Heilsgeschichte in der biblischen Tradition und in der theologischen Deutung
Schriftgelehrte Prophetie
Der eschatologische Teufelsfall in Apc Joh 12 und seine Bedeutung für das Verständnis der Johannesoffenbarung
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